From: Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered?
Date: 1996/06/17
Date: 1996-06-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31C57FB5.1D04@lmtas.lmco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4ppb89$gbq@gde.GDEsystems.COM
Michael Levasseur wrote:
> The commercial world has now paired the major languages
> down to a handfull.
Could you list this "handful"? From what I read in the commercial magazines, the
list of languages is constantly _growing_. What's more, very few languages in the
commericial world are disappering (e.g., COBOL and FORTRAN are still going strong,
and variations of both continue to be introduced).
> It is now time to drop the Ada Mandate! If
> Ada is as strong as everyone says, clearly it will thrive and survive.
> I personnally believe that if that "Ada Mandate" was removed,
> Ada would take it's place in history like Jovial, Pascal, and Atlas...
You mean, yet another language for DoD to maintain, along with Objective-C,
Visual Basic, Concurrent-Visual-C++, etc. etc.?
I don't see how this helps...
> These are just my humble opinion from an Ada Programmer, yes I'm
> an Ada programmer!!!
Unfortunately, the Ada policy is designed to address non-programmer concerns,
like language proliferation. That's why it's generally uninteresting to talk about
the technical strengths of Ada vs. {whatever} when discussing changes to Ada
policy. The discussion is in the wrong domain!
--
LMTAS - "Our Brand Means Quality"
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Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-05-08 0:00 Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered? Howard Dodson
1996-05-08 0:00 ` Thomas C. Timberlake
1996-05-08 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-05-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
[not found] ` <31913863.446B9B3D@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
1996-05-10 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-14 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1996-05-14 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-05-17 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1996-06-03 0:00 ` Roy M. Bell
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Peggy Byers
1996-06-09 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Paul Whittington
1996-06-10 0:00 ` James Krell
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Michael Levasseur
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Michael Levasseur
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-17 0:00 ` Ken Garlington [this message]
1996-06-20 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Bob Kitzberger
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Tom Robinson
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Tom Robinson
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-18 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-18 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Carl Bowman
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Tom Robinson
[not found] ` <31DD5234.11CB@thomsoft.com>
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Front Ends (was: Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered?) Tom Robinson
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered? Jon S Anthony
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-06-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Front Ends (was: Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered?) Jon S Anthony
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-06-14 0:00 Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered? Mark Bell
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Kevin J. Weise
1996-06-17 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Michael Levasseur
1996-06-14 0:00 Mark Bell
1996-06-17 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-06-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-19 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-21 0:00 Bob Crispen
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-06-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-01 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Bob Crispen
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-30 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1996-06-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-30 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-06-30 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Bob Kitzberger
1996-07-10 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-07-10 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Brad Balfour
1996-07-11 0:00 ` James Rhodes
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Jim Chelini
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-07-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
[not found] <nhd91w250f.fsf@paralysys>
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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